Rating data are underrated: Validity of US expectancy in human fear conditioning

Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-206

  Boddez, Yannick ^a   Baeyens, Frank ^a   Luyten, Laura ^a   Vansteenwegen, Debora ^a   Hermans, Dirk ^a   Beckers, Tom ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Emotion; Fear; Human fear conditioning; Shock expectancy; US expectancy

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONSTRUCT VALIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC VALIDITY; EMOTION; FACE VALIDITY; FEAR; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MEASUREMENT; PREDICTIVE VALIDITY; UNCONDITIONED STIMULUS EXPECTANCY MEASUREMENT; VALIDITY;

ANTICIPATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; HUMANS; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 84870201321     PISSN: 00057916     EISSN: 18737943     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jbtep.2012.08.003     Document Type: Article

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